Author: Bennett CerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Modern American Plays
Author: George P. BakerPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434406482
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Contains the following plays: "As A Man Thinks," by Augustus Thomas; "The Return of Peter Grimm," by David Belasco; "Romance," by Edward Shelton; "The Unchastened Woman," by Louis Kaufman Anspacher; and "Plots and Playwrights," by Edward Massey.
The Pocket of Modern American Plays
Author: Bennett CerfThe Pocket Book of Modern American Plays
Author: Bennett CerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre
Author: John GassnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
The Pocket Book of Modern American Plays. Edited, and With an Introd. by Bennett Cerf
Author: Bennett CerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
100 Greatest American Plays
Author: Thomas S. HischakPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442256060
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Theatre in America has had a rich history—from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant works by American playwrights have been produced, including Abie’s Irish Rose, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, and Angels in America. In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details production history biography of the playwright literary aspects of the drama critical reaction to the play major awards the play’s influence cast lists of notable stage and film versions The plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and include works by Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. This informative volume also includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for American Plays, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Providing critical information about the most important works produced since the eighteenth century, 100 Greatest American Plays will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of theatre.
Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre
Author: John GassnerAmerican Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre
Author: Allan LewisPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Modern American Plays
Author: George P. BakerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330367865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Excerpt from Modern American Plays: Collected With Introduction The plays here printed are not, of course, the only five which might have been selected. From the many possible American plays of the last ten years these five have been chosen because decided success has been theirs, and because today they are worthy of professional revival. There is, however, a third test which has excluded many plays otherwise desirable, - the selections made must show the greatest possible variety. Romance, played very successfully in the United States for a season or two, was revived by Miss Doris Keane in London in War time. Its "run" was over a thousand nights, one of the longest on record. The central situation, an unsophisticated young man infatuated with an actress, is undeniably not new. We have seen it in Nance Oldfield, and more recently in Barrie's Rosalind, indeed, in a dozen other plays. What lifts Romance free of triteness is just what produced its unusual success, the characterization of Mme. Cavallini. So inseparably is the part associated with Miss Keane, who first acted it, that it is impossible exactly to distinguish the contributions of the author and the actress to the final effect of perfect characterization. After all, the drama is a collaborative art, and no role - even Hamlet or Lear - is seen at its best till an actor of such sensitiveness and matured technique plays it that not merely what the text obviously says, but its slightest implications are revealed. In Mme. Cavallini, as played, author and actress worked in perfect accord. The heroine of Romance quickly wins, and thereafter holds, the sympathy of the audience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: G. P. Baker